On 30 September 2014 20:58, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > Would this mean that if people had a fancy sig, and they changed it, > it would automatically update everywhere with this magic tag instead > of just applying to new signatures? (Which might be cool) > > Downside to that you might have some tricky issue where people change > their sig after the fact to be something malicious (For some > definition of malicious), and then all the old sigs change without an > edit to track it and generally be a vehicle for mass vandalism. > (Didn't that use to be an issue on /. ?) >
This also makes working out what the state of the page at time X quite hard for things like "Please note that I am being paid to edit by XYZ Inc." that come and go from month to month to be seen. I'd not be a fan of changing this expectation without a huge amount of prior notice, and definitely not doing to retrospectively… J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
